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Saturday, March 17, 2007
11:19 PM


It's been a busy holiday.

Many new hobbies - skating, chocolate fondue-ing and baking.

Went skating on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. Many thanks to TP :D

Had a barbeque w the usuals at the usual ECP on Tuesday! (: They never fail to cheer me up, not that i was down or anything, but yeah. Taught David how to skate, and I must say he's pretty awesome for a beginner.


This flame was greeeen, so cool !



After drama on Wednesday, Lynette Sophia came over to my place for chocolate fondue and John Tucker Must Die (obviously, Sophia wants him alive)!

The crazy kukus bought two punnets of strawberries. Shockingly, we MANAGED to finish them all. I felt sooo guilty after that, was so stuffed.



You know you want some ^^

Chocolate fondue leads to a sugar rush, which leads to the next couple of photos :D


Many MANY jumping attempts, which led to me hitting my fingers on the ceiling from leaping off my sofa. >.<>

Soph w croc aka "John Tucker", Nette with MehMeh and me w Thomas J.


See the sweat? Frm all the jumping



What you looking at, girl?

Lynette does a jig.

Warning : Extreme High


Love you girls (:


Watched this after they left.



Sorry, but I can't help thinking Wu Zun is bloody hot in a pretty boy sort of way.


On Thursday, I made NZ's dog biscuits. However, they didn't turn out like how OPC had them in NZ. I think the ingredients at our local bake supplies store varies quite a bit.

Theeeen, I watched Heroes and got so tempted by the cupcake Hayden( the cheerleader) made, and searched for a vanilla cupcake recipe. Thus I found this :

Magnolia's Vanilla Cupcakes


1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Line two 12-cup muffin tins with cupcake liners (and/or mini-cupcake tins)

3. In a small bowl, combine the two flours.

4. In a large bowl, cream the butter until smooth using a mixer on medium speed. Add the sugar in gradually and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs in one at a time, beating well after each addition.

5. Add in the dry ingredients (the two flours) in three parts, alternating with the milk and vanilla.Beat until the ingredients are incorporated but do not overbeat. Scrape down the bowl's side with a rubber spatula to make sure all the ingredients are well-blended.

6. Take a teaspoon and spoon the batter into the regular-size muffin liners, filling them about 3/4 full. (For the minis, fill about 1/2 way.)

7. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a cake tester inverted in the center of the cupcake comes out clean.

8. Cool the cupcakes in their tins for 15 minutes. Remove from tins and cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.

Opinion: For people who just want to try out the recipe for fun, cut down all the ingredients by half for a batch of 12 medium sized cupcakes. Also, the amount of sugar is too much since there is going to be frosting on the cupcakes, so cut down a little on the sugar. If you want a more vanilla-flavoured cupcake, add more vanilla as 1tsp does not suffice. Also, add a dash of salt into the mix.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting




(makes enough for at least 24 regular or 48 mini-size cupcakes)

1 cup (2 sticks) plus 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened

5 cups confectioners sugar

1/3 cup milk

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1. Place butter in a large mixing bowl. Add 4 cups of the confectioners sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy - about 5 minutes. Gradually add the remaining 1 cup of confectioner's sugar and salt, beating about 3 minutes until the frosting is of good spreadable consistency. If you like, add a few drops of food coloring and mix well.




Opinion: This goes the same for the cupcakes. Cut down the ingredients by half. The half batch of the buttercream icing is enough to top 24 cupcakes, even when it's reduced by half. For a more fun, add hundreds of thousands or add food colouring!

The End Result!


I'm high on sugar right now (:



Monday, March 05, 2007
9:47 PM


Hello, it's been a while. (:

Donna goh is back to blog, for now.

Anyways, Saturday was an awesome day. Why?

That's cos I got to watch Fall Out Boy at Singapore Expo :DDDD For free, compliments of Jon B. ! At first, I thought it was a lost cause to go see them cos I heard from lots of people that all the tickets were sold out. Then, I realised it was a ploy to raise the price of the tickets because, Justin bought his at $102( $2 for sistic charge, pfft) on Friday the 2nd, day before the concert, when it was previously sold at $77 per tix. Such scheming people. Then, Justin made my day when he said his bro had free tickets, I seriously thought it was a joke, needless to say i was ecstatic.




clockwise from left : Justin, Jon(camwhore camwhore!!), Melinda, Evonne, Tania, David( got cut off :X)

Price of tix : From top to bottom - $0.00 , $77.00, $102.00

We met at around 6 at Kembangan.

Met Kester, Jiaheng, Homing and Zhang going to Ashley's house for stayover.

Anyhooo, reached the place, Max Pavillion. It wasn't as neat and orderly as the Simple Plan concert, nor Good Charlotte, where there were actual queue lines. It was basically, a mob.


People swarming towards the door, where people get led into the main concert area. They scream each time the doors open, well you can imagine the noise.



This boy was damn cute, he was reading while the crowd waited for the opening act. I wonder why he bothered to show.

We didn't have crazy people like Shanti, who queued up for GC at 7.30am. >.<> The opening act, One Buck Short, was horrible to say the least. Couldn't hear a word the lead was singing. Then Saw Loser, came on and the crowd got seriously pissed off. I mean, who'd ever heard of not one, but two opening acts! It took like an hour and a half to get those two acts packing. A classic photo of the crowd's reaction:


(They're all pointing their middles if you didn't notice.)


Finally, after about 1h30mins, Fall Out Boy came on !!! The crowd went nuts, there was moshing and stuff at the front, girls were flashing -.- the usual head banging and rock gestures etc. I think it was worth the wait, the anticipation almost waned but it didn't.




I didn't know much songs of the songs from the new album, but they played songs like :

Sugar we're going down

Grand Theft Autumn( my fave)

Dance dance

This ain't a scene, it's an arms race

Don't you know who I think I am

Golden

and I can't remember the rest cos I was busy taking photos of PETE WENZ.

I took like 20plus headshots but I'm lazy to upload, save em for myself :D

I feel really bad cos I think Patrick is a great vocalist, and he deserves much attention and credit, cos he sounds exactly like in the album, and Pete kinda steals the limelight away from him but I can't help drooling over Pete cos he is the cutest shizz!

All in all, the concert was awesome!



"Penguins look cute, but they're actually very dirty and grumpy, and they try to peck you!" - Dad's analysis of penguins in capetown. How descriptive. ^^

Lol. I still think they're cute. And for that, Amirul, I am not a penguin cos i'm neither dirty nor grumpy, but I will peck your eyes out (:


Will be updating, whenever, whatever. :D


Lovelove.

P.S. Sorry for the askewed pictures, lazy to reduce the sizes.



Sunday, March 04, 2007
10:38 PM


hello!




HER

Donna Goh

the loved ones have gone, are you here to stay?

DESIRES

A new bag
Fall Out Boy T
Infinity on High
Roxy/Billabong pencilcase
A candy shop :D

AND I'D SAY..

I'm addicted to the way I feel when I think of you.

SCREAM


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